IIBA (CDU)

PMI (PDU)

Select courses offer Leadership (PDU-L), Strategic (PDU-S) and Technical PMI professional development units that vary according to certification. Technical PDUs are available in the following types: ACP, PBA, PfMP, PMP/PgMP, RMP, and SP.

Learn the 'buzz-words' and the terminology that Scrum uses. During this 2-day course, you will learn effective ways to include your customer in the process to ensure they are satisfied with the outcome. You will acquire the knowledge to produce metrics, such as Burndown charts. You will understand how to better estimate a release and help your customer understand what they will get and when they will get it.

This 2-day Scrum Master training course gives you hands-on experience with best practices for incorporating the customer into your daily plan, establish a cadence for the team, the importance that the team plays in the plan, and how much it means to commit to a goal. Lively lectures combined with insightful demonstrations and realistic practice exercises provide you with the competence and confidence to improve the quality of your product. You'll gain a thorough understanding of the challenges faced everyday by the technology team and how you, as a Scrum Master, can help overcome those obstacles. If you want to help your team be successful and use your coaching and facilitating skills to good use, you just have to take this course!

ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP)

Attendees who successfully complete this course will receive the ICP designation after course completion, based on their exposure to the Agile Fundamentals learning objectives, which is covered in this course.

In this course, you will:

What really works to help business customers clarify the current state of their business

How to engage your customer for their benefit

How to bridge gaps between business customers and designers, developers, and testers

Learn the process in which your work and your project exists

Get practical, real-world methods for initiating conversations with users to identify and solve business problems

Enhance your relationships with stakeholders and increase their satisfaction

Tips and tricks that have helped other ScrumMasters be successful with their real-world projects

There aren’t any public sessions currently scheduled for this course, but if you fill out the form below, we can tell you about how we can bring this course to you!

The Foundations of Agile

In order to understand how to be a good ScrumMaster, you first need to understand the foundations of Agile.

Setting the Agile Mindset

Defining Agile – Not something you "do"

Agile Manifesto & Principles

The Basic Agile Concepts

Being Iterative

How to be Incremental

Benefits of Iterative and Incremental

Empirical and Defined Processes

Scrum Foundations

Now that you understand the basics of Agile, let's look at the Scrum methodology in particular.

The History of Scrum

Nonaka and Takeuchi

Other early contributors

Timeboxing and the Sprint

The Importance of Prioritization

Protecting Focus

The Definition of "Definition of Done"

Sprint Duration

"The Picture of Scrum"

The Scrum Team and Roles

Actually Doing Scrum

Let's put the foundations to use and understand how to actually do Scrum.

Develop the Product Backlog

User Stories – The Agile Requirement

Story Writing – What is a Story and what does it look like?

INVEST – The Bill Wake Acronym

Non-User Stories

Estimation of a Different Kind

Relative Estimating and using Story Points

Planning Poker

Prioritization and Order of the Product Backlog

Methods to Do It

Considerations when Prioritizing and Ordering

Backlog Refinement – Let's groom the User Stories

Plan the Sprint

How to Set Up for Success with Team Capacity and Sprint Goal

Sprint Planning Meeting

Building Tasks, Estimating the Hours, Taking Ownership

Making Effective Tasks

Task Completeness As It Relates to "Definition of Done"

Ensuring Capacity is Just-Right

Committing to the Commitment

Showing your Plan on the Taskboard

Run the Race

Daily Scrum Meeting

Keeping Up the Taskboard During Execution

The Sprint Burndown

Team Best Practices

Crossing the Finish Line

Sprint Review Meeting

Showing Completeness with the Taskboard

Get Feedback and Improve

Sprint Demo

The Sprint Retrospective – Inspect & Adapt

Plan and Track the Release

Team Velocity

Release Planning Meeting

Release Burndown

Advancing Scrum

Let's take it to the next level...

Review

Scrum Values

Practices review

Roles review

Tips for ScrumMasters as…

Coach

Guide

Facilitator

Impediment steward

Facilitator

Change Agent

Advanced Topics

Now for some things to help you be a better ScrumMaster for your organization...

Scaling Scrum to Large Organizations

Scaling Teams

Scaling Forums

Product Backlog considerations

Distributed Teams

Scaling Engineering Practices and Infrastructure Needs

Next Steps

What's next?

Getting Started…

Team Initial roadmap

Low-tech vs. tools

CSM Certification

About the Scrum Alliance

Assessment and Certification

Real-World Exercises

Excercise 1: Putting some of the concepts in the foundations to workExcercise 2: Put some of the concepts discussed around Scrum to work; this will continue throughout the next section as well.Excercise 3: The Beloved Horse

IIBA (CDU)

PMI (PDU)

Select courses offer Leadership (PDU-L), Strategic (PDU-S) and Technical PMI professional development units that vary according to certification. Technical PDUs are available in the following types: ACP, PBA, PfMP, PMP/PgMP, RMP, and SP.